Synth pioneer Dave Smith to feature in podcast

Dave Smith is an American audio engineer who arguably played as large a part as Bob Moog in the development of the modern synthesizer. Smith’s Sequential Circuits created many revered synths, including the Prophet 5 (above right), the first microprocessor-based synth. Smith also proposed the MIDI standard in 1981, which has been incorporated into nearly every synth in the last 25 years.

No Island Media, a digital media production company specializing in short-form reality programmes for and about creative professionals, plans to produce a documentary about Dave Smith and tutorials for the PolyEvolver keyboard.

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